• to analyze the main trends and tendencies in the work of young filmmakers around the world
• to establish and broaden creative contacts between young filmmakers and between film schools
• to recognize new personalities in modern film art
• to integrate Ukrainian film into the global process of cinema art and industry

Film Festival Molodist commenced its activity in 1970. It was a local festival in which participated young students of the cinematographic faculty of Kyiv National Institute of theatre arts named after Karpenko-Karyi. Since then Ukrainian young film Festival is oriented towards the young cinematographers. Festival’s main goal is to find and to discover help young talents to occupy a fitting place in contemporary cinema process.

«Molodist» is a specialized festival aimed to support the cinema of the young directors. That’s why we looking thoroughly for a works of talented youth on film festivals. And this wok is done not only in Ukraine but also all over the world. That’s why we process hundreds of applications and spend our time for a hundreds hours of videos.

Festival’s competition program consists of sections of student films, first short film (fiction film, animation, documentary) and first full-length fiction film. That helps to see the evolution of the competitors. Election Committee also follows the life of the competitors after their graduation.

To some purpose the International Film Festival Molodist is called one of the most important events in Western Europe. In different years «Molodist» screened the debuts of such successive European directors as – Gaspar Noe, Tom Tykwer, Danny Boyle, Laurent Bouhnik, Oleksiy Balabanov, Shona Auerbach, Denis Evstigneev, Jacques Audiard, Dmitriy Meskhiev, Valeriy Todorovskiy, Francois Ozon, Stephen Daldry, Sergiy Maslobojschikov, Bilge Geyran, Bruno Dumont and many others.